Search: 84 results found for "West African painting"

Illustration of a green mask-like face with blue eyelids, red beaded locs, tongue out and a star by the nose, purple spikes around it, set like a playing card with a red M in the corners on ochre.

Curator's Note

KeO calls her a mask depicting the beauty of a young lady. He then gives her a tongue stuck out at the viewer and a star for a beauty mark.…

Yoruba

Mojisola

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

A woman's head floats a hand's width above her shoulders and casts its own shadow. Clement Obioha turns the caricaturist's instinct inward,…

Igbo

Monologue

Chibuike Clement ObiohaChibuike C. O.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Faceted portrait of an elderly Black man with white hair and beard, lips slightly parted, wearing a gold hoop earring and gold chain, his red shirt merging into a flat red background.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Dayo made his old man for the elders he grew up around, the quiet ones who have seen a lot and carry it with dignity. White beard against a…

Yoruba

Old Man Red

Yr. 2024

Dayo Gerard AkindoyeniDayo G. A.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Pencil-sketched portrait of a young man with a high-top haircut, chin raised and eyes glancing to the side, a vertical band of ochre light across his face, on a grey background.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Everyone has made this face, and everyone has received it. Ekundayo leaves the young man in loose pencil and spends his only paint on a ban…

Yoruba

Huh!

Yr. 2022

Adeyemo EkundayoAdeyemo E.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Black-and-yellow illustration of CMS Cathedral in Lagos with its clock tower against a large yellow sun; a man in a dark suit walks past taxis and a bus stop sketched in yellow line.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

In Lagos, CMS is as much a direction as a building. Anth Ezeokoye gives the church its place in Made in Lagos. It is a series made to prese…

Yoruba

CMS Church, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration on rust red of a round blue mask face with six striped hair knots, cowrie shell earrings and an orange patterned comb as its body; a letter A and small copies in the corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

KeO turns a girl's name into a playing card. There is a looping A in the corners, a mask at the centre, and in place of a body, a comb. Abi…

Yoruba

Abike

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustrated portrait of a woman with a solid black face, almond eyes and pink lips, framed by gold circles and chevrons, beneath dense swirling red, blue, green and white lines on black.

STU. 20/20

Curator's Note

Nerome Borke gives her the darkest, calmest surface in the picture and rings it with gold. So everything restless happens around her and ne…

Undeclared

Neya

Yr. 2022

Nerome BorkeNerome B.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Painting of a bald man squatting with eyes closed, one hand on his chest and the other touching the ground, while three dark shadowy figures with raised hands stand behind him in grey-green smoke.

STU. 19/20

Curator's Note

A man squats with one hand drawing chalk on the ground and the other pressed to his heart, as shadow figures close in. For Joshua Omoijiade…

Undeclared

Prayer

Yr. 2021

Joshua OmoijiadeJoshua O.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Dense black-and-white line drawing of a young woman with spiral-patterned hair and a decorated pot on her head, beside a tall staff, in a landscape of hills and fields drawn in flowing parallel lines.

COLL. 30/30

Curator's Note

Yeko builds sky, hills and girl from one rhythm of strokes, until it is hard to tell where the young woman ends and the earth begins.

Ugandan

Village Girl

Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$250· Collector Edition· Coll. Ed.

Black-and-yellow illustration of the Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos: the cable-stayed bridge and its single pylon, with small sketched wings, in front of a large yellow sun, above a street of buildings.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

Lagos is a city held together by its crossings, and Anth Ezeokoye gives one of its newest landmarks the same affection as its oldest. In Ma…

Yoruba

Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lagos

Anthony EzeokoyeAnthony E.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

Illustration on green of a round mask face with a red fringe, two red buns, heavy-lidded blue eyes, tongue out, blue comb-shaped earrings and a red bead loop; letter S and small copies in corners.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…

Yoruba

Shindara

Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel KomaiyaOluwatobiloba E. K.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

STU. 60/60

Curator's Note

For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. Source draws a face in profile built entirely from pattern, cowries, eyes and wav…

Ugandan

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Marjory Yeko JewittMarjory Y. J.

From$55· Studio Edition· Stu. Ed.

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Mojisola

Monologue

Old Man Red

Huh!

CMS Church, Lagos

Abike

Neya

Prayer

Village Girl

Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lagos

Shindara

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